‘Hair Love’ director brings Deandre Arnold, teen told to cut dreadlocks, to Oscars

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Can you imagine going from being banned from graduation because of how you wear your hair to walking the Oscars 2020 red carpet? That's exactly what happened to Texas high school senior DeAndre Arnold, who was told by his school that he would to walk in his graduation this spring unless he cut his locs.Arnold has been growing out his hair, rooted in his Trinidadian heritage, since the seventh grade and said he had complied with school rules by wearing it pinned up during the day.

Deandre Arnold, the high school student who was suspended for refusing to cut his dreadlocks, arrived at the 92nd Oscars as “Hair Love” director Matthew A. Cherry’s guest.

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Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade invited teenage fan DeAndre Arnold to the Oscars after he was kept from walking at graduation because of his dreadlocks.